“Democrats have 24 more seats (in Congress) than they would have if illegal aliens were not counted in the census.” (fact or fiction?)

Politfact ^ | 08/07/2025 | Paul Specht

[know.your.why]

Can anyone please help me get to the bottom of the notion that illegal immigrants were allowed to flood into the US by the previous administration to act a mules to interfere with election results? TY.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/aug/07/john-blust/the-us-census-counts-noncitizens-did-that-give-dem/

[central_va]

You are there, it’s true .

[Sarah Barracuda]

Actually its NOT 24 seats, more like 40 seats..and that is why Dems will do ANYTHING to protect illegals..ALL illegals, doesn’t matter if they are criminal aliens or not, they want them ALL to stay, in order to keep congressional seats. They figured out the game, import as many useful idiot illegals as possible, throw them some Govt freebies, spread em around to different districts, and gain house seats, that simple

[know.your.why]

That great! Now please state your source of information. Serious. I really need to see a credible research story with facts and figures showing this conclusion. Thank you.

[central_va]

Each district has around 900,000 citizens. Dividing 25 million illegals by 900k gives you around 28 reps that shouldn’t be there.

[know.your.why]

That great! Now please state your source of information. Serious. I really need to see a credible research story with facts and figures showing this conclusion. Thank you.

[central_va]

Common sense and math , not hard to calculate it yourself. You can do basic math?

[rlmorel]

It is absolutely true. It is infuriating to me to hear those douchebags refer to the “Border Crisis” as if it were a “crisis”.

It was an illegal, seditious, planned and orchestrated invasion of this country by the actions of the Democrat Party.

There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

The proof is that within weeks of taking office, President Donald Trump and his Administration cut off the flow of illegals flooding into this country from all over the world.

The Democrats could have done the exact same things (in other words, enforce the laws on the books and actively discourage illegal immigration) but they did none of those things...because they wanted it.

[central_va]

You are an idiot. Ask goggle or aj how many us reps do 25 million citizens get?
You can do that? Are you mentally impaired?

[srmanuel]

They’re 435 seats in Congress whether Illegal Aliens are counted or not, where it makes a difference is in places like California which is a sanctuary state artificially inflating their population versus a state like Florida who is helping ICE with deportations.

In the census California gets extra seats they should not be getting, and Florida gets cheated out of seats they should be getting.

Last census, Florida gained 2 new seats when it should have gotten 4...

Basically blue states are getting a couple of dozen extra seats the should be going to red states.

[know.your.why]

Common sense and math , not hard to calculate it yourself. You can do basic math?

Awe bummer. I was afraid of that. No concrete credible source. No credible genuine journalistic source....of which there would be if this were as huge as it seems on the surface. Something stinks. All these claims, yet nothing from the NY Post, or other news site that would surely run this story.

[know.your.why]

GFY! Thoroughly and completely.

[central_va]

Yes,the total population is divided by 435 to get the number of citizens per seat/district . That number will cross 1,000,000 in 20 years.

[central_va]

Grow up and get a math book.

[webheart]

In the short term it is not the ballots filled in by illegal aliens being counted as votes, it is the apportionment of the population of illegal aliens who are represented in congress for being people living in a specific area. The votes will come later but at first if you get 20 million people that you can count you can create congressional representation for them. You don’t need them to vote. There are other ways of making sure that the people who are eligible to vote end up voting for Democrats. That’s what gerrymandering is for. Then you get ballot harvesting, anonymous voting by mail, loose election deadlines, and endless recounts. There are more ways even than those. Multiply recounting some ballots while spoiling other ballots, provisional ballots,

[ansel12]

“”””between 2019 and 2023. Cato said red states gained an estimated 1.2 million noncitizens while blue states gained about 72,000””””

The debunking says red states and blue states both gain seats from counting illegals, but what kind of seats, are they democrat seats in blue states and gop in red? No.

Do the illegals help give democrats more districts and help lock up and make those districts impenetrable in the future, regardless of what state? Yes.

[central_va]

You do not understand apportionment of congressional seats and ask embarrassing questions . You are a Democrat troll.

[know.your.why]

I challenge you to find the story that supports your “common sense”. Do it fktard! Dont you ever call me a democrat unless you can do it to my face! you POS!

[central_va]

I don’t need help from journalism majors to do basic math.

[central_va]

It’s basic math you buffoon.